Ryan Caidic is a Filipino advertising creative director based in Europe. His poetry has been published in anthologies and journals across the US, Asia and Europe, and has won in the 2024 Spring Onyx Poetry Prize, highly commended in the 2023 Wales Poetry Award, shortlisted in the 2024 Peseroff Prize, 2024 Bridport Prize, Prism Pacific Spirit Prize, Wolverhampton Poetry Festival, and longlisted in UK's Yeovil Festival and Canterbury Festival’s Poet of the Year among others. His debut collection is forthcoming from Fernwood Press (US, 2026).